Spotty traffic enforcement leaves reader wondering

Posted: Monday, September 18, 2000

What do traffic signs really mean? Let's take the signs located at the corner of West Lake Drive and Lumpkin Street and the point where West Lake turns into Alps Road. They distinctly show a truck with a slash through it. However, I continuously note all kinds of trucks from cement mixers to large postal vans and, yes, even semi-tractor trailers traversing this local street. It is becoming a highway.

I still wonder what those signs mean and how local law enforcement might try to interpret them. At times, the speeders find out the speed limit signs at the Alps end of the street really have a meaning (it does not often occur at the east end). So, some signs must mean something. I still wonder about those truck signs ...